Because these early hunter-gatherers have been perceived as building only transient camp sites, they have been largely disregarded in explanations of the development of agriculture.

Under Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, prisoners were tormented with music but still found solace in it, a new book reveals ...

Research examining ancient sewer drain sediment suggests the Roman soldiers garrisoned at the fort of Vindolanda suffered with intestinal worms and diarrhoea – ...

This gulf in knowledge could be exploited by a tech industry intent on selling the “next level of AI cleverness”, argues Dr Tom McClelland.

Pope Leo XIV's Augustinian order once performed green-fingered, dragon-slaying miracles. Dr Krisztina Ilko rediscovers their lives and wild power base ...

Insights into the tool use difference between chimpanzees and bonobos can help us identify the conditions that drove the evolution of human technology ...

Good memory function supports a variety of other mental processes, and memory problems can certainly hold people back in terms of success in education and the workplace ...

The father’s gene drives the fetus’s demands for larger blood vessels and more nutrients, while the mother’s gene in the placenta tries to control how much nourishment she provides ...

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The next 50 years will bring huge changes to UK forests: the threats they face, the way that we manage them, and the benefits they deliver to society. Dr Eleanor Tew, visiting researcher at ...

In some ways we treat the idea that scripture can be used as the basis of a holy war as primitive and medieval. Actually, the Bible was being used for self-justification by opposing sides in Europe ...

Cambridge Dictionary has named 'parasocial' as the Word of the Year for 2025.